This is to Jen O'Quinn ....I nursed my middle daughter up until 5 weeks before her brother was born. After he was born he developed jaundice and by day 4 the pedi had us so upset with keeping him in the hospital (actually I was allowed to stay because I was breastfeeding, ok it was 28 yrs ago) we started pumping and dumping...I was pumping with a little old "horn style pump"....over 8oz every 2 1/2 hrs. I cried as I poured it down the sink, because no one had a freezer in which to store that much milk. By day five, when they sent us home I had to go on a search and destroy mission to find a bottle...which he promptly refused. Fortunately our regular pedi came back to town and told us to put him back on the breast...which he happily did for the next 2 years. I had a patient a few years ago who was breastfeeding through out her pregnancy and wanted to tandem nurse while in the hospital she had copious amts of what looked like milk laced with butter. So I do think from some experience that some women will have greater than anticipated amounts of milk if they have breastfeed through part or all of their pregnancy. Just heard the wonderful words from the middle daughter as she was mentally running through her plans for this week and she said "And LLL is on Wednesday and the baby and me exercise class starts M, W, F but since LLL is on W, I think I go on Friday." All I could do was grin. Leanne Jewell RNC, IBCLC, LCCE, FACCE SFl *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html